Is it really fair?
for you to X me out
over something I
was able to forgive you
for, so easily?

No, I see now.
I taught you how 
to treat me.

I should have known. 

I should have 
shown you
that you can’t
disrespect me
and get away
with it.

Next time
I will love 
myself
more.

It’s not easy, living. Our human existence is an ongoing experience of what Baruch Spinoza called servitudo (bondage): we are constantly, despite ourselves and our best efforts, at the mercy of forces greater than us, subject to events and encounters that cause emotions we’d rather not feel. As the great British thinker Kate Bush once put it, “Just being alive—it can really hurt.”
— Read on 4columns.org/ft/think-least-of-death

science affirms indigenous knowledge
        after refuting dismissing destroying burning caging it
for centuries
    commodification to follow

more bombs less food!
fight the good fight

why are children suffering?
experts offer boilerplate

planet becoming unlivable
GDP up 1%! hip hip hooray!!

you 
lovely lady of the south
who i loved so much
who i love
and could love 
in new ways
untapped potential
is the best kind
tho powder-kegs 
can leave you blind

there’s sweeter water on the other side
of this the sold-short too much suffering
so what? you say
i am humbled by your skepticism 
fuckin figure it out and get freaked